


After that, a hacker has free reign to change additional settings and make your life miserable.īut why did the attacker target you? Perhaps you clicked on a clever email or message link, and now the hacker has full control of your home network. Someone may have figured out the credentials, logged in, and changed the password to lock you out. With that said, there’s also the slim possibility that someone hacked your router. It usually means you’re entering the wrong password, you misspelled the password, or something on the router side is corrupt.

There have been plenty of times when we returned to a router we previously tested, and it (rather rudely) denied us access to the settings. First, let’s be clear that your inability to sign in to your router or gateway doesn’t always mean you’ve been hacked.
